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Texas EOC English 2: 4.2 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: 4.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 5 Views


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Texas EOC English 2: 4.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres. What does the selected text imply about estuaries?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by biology so later

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you'll have to dissect it and locate its heart okay drive the following passage [Students dissecting in class]

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estuaries....... okay we're skimming see I'm assuming and yeah we're done

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read the following selection from paragraph to write chair because they

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are biologically productive estuaries provide ideal areas for migratory birds

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to rest and refuel during their long journeys the selection above implies

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that estuaries what all right produce provided oh alright well let's whittle

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down our choices by nixing the options that aren't mentioned in the passage [Bat strikes pinata]

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right off the bat first we'll cross off choice C though it's true that some

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birds do hang out in estuaries during the winter the pastures never talks

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about this though ferdz want to get advice for their winter vacations well [Bird using iPhone]

01:00

they can count on the EPA for travel tips we can eliminate option D as well

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birds do follow a seasonal lifecycle but again the passage doesn't mention this

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fact answer a might fool us if we're not careful but we've got your letter a the [Man wearing a jokers hat]

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term biologically productive might lead us to think that the original sentence

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is referring to the fact that some migratory birds are born in estuaries

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however this passage never specifically fills us in on this choice B is the

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right answer when the passage says that estuaries are biologically productive it

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means wetlands contain sources of food that catch the eye in other parts of [Bird flies over a wetland]

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migratory birds let's imagine that we're on an epic road trip are we going to

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look for an empty deserted village in which to hang out or are we looking for [Family drive car into empty village]

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a town with an all-you-can-eat buffet in a nice place to chill for a while yeah

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birds too

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